Artists

Susumu Takashima

Drawing for Tools and Materials
My works are divided into three kinds according to the drawing tools and materials; one
is “Drawing for Brushes, Ink and Paper”, two is “Drawing for Pencil Sharpeners, Colored Pencils and Canvas” and three is “Drawing for Silverpoint”. All of the drawings consist of an accumulation of lines, and each line becomes gradually thinner or thicker from the start to the end.

A line drawn by a brush is thickest with full ink at the start, and gradually becomes thinner to be blurred out, just like a decrescendo.

A line drawn by a colored pencil pointed by a pencil sharpener is thinnest at the start,
and gradually becomes thicker, just like a crescendo.

Such changes in thickness of lines will build up a shape in each of my drawings.

Tools and materials are just a means for expression essentially; however, each shape on my works is to express the structure of tools and materials themselves.

I would rather play tools and materials themselves, just like a musician playing an in- strument, than represent something with them.

Therefore the title of my works shall be “Drawing for Brushes, Ink and Paper”, “Draw- ing for Pencil Sharpeners, Colored Pencils and Paper” and “Drawings for Silverpoint” just like classical music.